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...area Cappadocia (fairy chimneys), and at nearly every roadside stop, there's a stall selling gozleme - the region's extraordinary flat bread: a mixture of feta cheese, parsley, vegetables and spices wrapped in dough and sizzled on a griddle until crisp. Gozleme is tangier than an Indian paratha, more robust than a French crepe and altogether delicious. Cappadocians eat gozleme for breakfast, lunch and dinner (usually with a refreshing glass of ayran, a frothy yogurt drink). Newer restaurants in the area offer variants stuffed with eggplant or mushrooms. While purists scoff at such modern interpretations and argue that there...
DIED. VIOLA FREY, 70, artist whose colorful, larger-than-life clay sculptures of men and women pushed the boundaries of the refined ceramic medium of the 1950s and '60s; of colon cancer; in Oakland, Calif. Her 9-ft.-high, robust, cartoonish figures--a fusion of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art and what was later known as California Funk--were comical but politically pointed: a 2002 work, Man Kicking World, shows a seated man pushing a massive globe with his foot...
...clear. We want trade. We want lots of trade with other countries—robust trade,” Granholm said. “But we want it to be fair trade. John Kerry will fight to enforce our trade agreements...
...ideal place to conduct vaccine research. Because it is home to huge numbers of people who are HIV negative but at high risk of developing AIDS, Ho will be able to inoculate some of them with his vaccine and find out whether they can generate an immune response robust enough to protect them in case of a future exposure...
...that's not true for everyone, and researchers would love to identify the psychological quirks that protect some people and sabotage others. Small studies suggest that the immune systems of optimistic law students are more robust than those of pessimists and that worrywarts suffer deeper hits to their immune system after a traumatic event than do nonworriers...